photo credit: cactusthesaint Someone changed all the Bush Street signs in San Francisco to Obama St. I ♥ this.
Sex Up Your Shopping Cart
It’s not often I get excited about shopping carts. But I just discovered Foxy Cart and it looks like the shopping cart solution I’ve been wanting for as long I can remember. At Joby we use Netsuite for our shopping cart, and one of my chief frustrations is how locked in we are to their [...]
Can Tipjoy Make Micropayments Into Megabucks?
I’ve been interested in the micropayment space for a long time now. I think it’s a promising market, and one that is just waiting to be addressed well. A while back I discovered a service called Tipjoy, which started as a Y Combinator funded project. I liked it the first time I saw it, and [...]
How Web Designers Really Spend Their Time
I stumbled across this image the other day. Unfortunately, it’s all too accurate a representation of how web designers are forced to spend their time these days. In other news, death to IE!
Timing Is Everything – Umbrellas for Sale!
Have you ever noticed how, in many cities, when it starts to rain, people magically appear with a whole lot of umbrellas for sale? They don’t seem to come from any particular place, and as soon as the rain disappears, so do they. I’ve always wondered where these people come from, and how it is [...]
150 Miles or Bust!
For the third consecutive year I’m going to be hopping on a bike and riding 150 miles (240 km) over two days to raise money for the fight against multiple sclerosis. The ride is called the MS 150 Waves to Wine. It starts tomorrow at the crack of dawn in San Francisco and finishes Sunday [...]
HDTV Comes to the Internets
I recently discovered that video site Vimeo has added the ability to upload and view high-definition videos on its HD channel. The results are pretty incredible. Not only does HD look amazing on the Internet, Vimeo’s FAQ page about their new HD feature claims that you can even play their videos on your HD TV [...]
Live from BlogHer!
This dispatch is coming directly from a ballroom at the BlogHer conference, where I’ve been staffing Joby’s table in the sponsor showcase. We’re debuting our newest product, the Zivio Bluetooth headset. We’ve been giving away advance samples to some of the lady bloggers here at the conference, and the response has been overwhelming! Early in [...]
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